Title: Identification of qualitative indicators of physical education students' online courses during the COVID-19 outbreak

Authors: Mehdi Salimi; Leila Moslehi

Addresses: Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran ' Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract: This paper aims to identify the factors affecting the quality of the e-learning of physical education students. The statistical population of the paper consisted of undergraduate students at the University of Isfahan in the field of physical education who passed their theoretical and practical courses virtually in two semesters. The sample size was estimated to be 210 individuals based on the Krejcie and Morgan table. Then, a researcher-made questionnaire was employed to collect the required data. Exploratory factor analysis was used to identify the factors affecting the quality of e-learning and confirmatory factor analysis was used to confirm the identified factors. According to the results, the factors affecting the e-learning quality of theoretical and practical courses are teachers' characteristics, technical characteristics of the educational system, content, student characteristics, and evaluation and feedback.

Keywords: e-learning; virtual learning; distance learning; physical education; COVID-19.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLT.2023.134580

International Journal of Learning Technology, 2023 Vol.18 No.3, pp.260 - 278

Received: 25 Mar 2022
Received in revised form: 22 Jul 2022
Accepted: 25 Jul 2022
Published online: 30 Oct 2023 *

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